Name: VIJAYAN M G Roll no: 10MJ17 Project title: PLM for Mechatronics Product.

LITERATURE SURVEY
    Design. Mechatronics. Collaboration. Integration.

Alain [1] explains a project of PROSTEP AG dealing with the improvement of interoperability in Mechatronic product development.[CAMAT]. Sellgren [2] gave a brief introduction and a better understanding of the technology Mechatronics. Heming Zhang [3] proposed a solution which can support the integration of distributed simulation models at run-time involving a computational infrastructure and a high level modeling approach. Qing Shen [4] utilized virtual reality technique and new interaction techniques to build a creative and efficient cooperative assembly environment for Mechatronic prototype design.

NEED FOR THE CURRENT STUDY

Sustainability has challenged mechatronics to transform into a closed-loop, cradle-to-cradle design approach. Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) is a process of managing the entire engineering lifecycle of a product, along with the software tools to synchronize information. Just as in mechatronics, this lifecycle is now viewed as one that stretches from conception, through design and manufacture, to service, disposal, and recycling. Just as a key element in mechatronics is human-centered design, PLM is becoming more human-centered, in addition to being informationcentered. New technology implies new types of errors, faults, and error modes, as well as completely new and unforeseen types of emergent behavior. So there should be a thought to reduce the complexity of manufacturing the Mechatronic product.

3. MAJOR REFERENCES
[1] Dr.Alain Biahmou, Dr.Arnulf Frohlich, Dr.Josip Stijepandic Improving Interoperability in Mechatronic Product Developmet- International conference on PLM. [2] Ulf Sellgren, Martin Torngren, Diana Malvius, Matthias Biehl PLM for Mechatronics Integration- International conference on PLM. [3] Niklas Adamsson Model-Based Development of Mechatronic Systems Reducing the Gaps Between Competencies? Proceedings of the TMCE (2004). [4] Heming Zhang, Hongwei Wang, David chen, Gregory Zacharewicz A Model-driven approach to Multidisciplinary Collaborative Simulation for Virtual Product Development [5] Qing Shen*, Jurgen Gausemeier, Jochen Bauch, Rafael Radkowski A cooperative virtual prototyping system for mechatronic solution elements based assembly

4. PROBLEM DEFINITION
These are the current problems faces in designing the Mechatronic product in PLM enterprises: (i) There is no single system design environment (now-a-days different disciplines use different softwares for designing purposes) for designing Mechatronics products. So single software can be designed with different modules for multidisciplinary product design. And there is no single product data management system for document and data management. Different databases can be integrated so that the data redundancy can be reduced and retrieval of data becomes easier. If there is any change in the Mechatronics product, managing the product lifecycle is difficult and updating of the product structure is difficult. So customization of product structure can be done with aid of languages. Customization of design software like PRO-Engineer to integrate with other software using languages (like C++, Java etc..,) for designing and stimulation of the Mechatronics product.

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5. OBJECTIVE
To customize the design software PRO-Engineer to integrate with other software like MATLAB / SimuLink using languages (like C++, Java etc..,) for designing and stimulation of the Mechatronics product.  To create a program to integrate the two softwares.

6. FEASIBILITY STUDY
 The software PRO-Engineer 5.0 and MATLAB is available in our college, the project is feasible.  Based on the journals study the project is feasible.

7. SCOPE OF THE PROJECT

 The project mainly used for integrating the two different softwares with different disciplines.  The project is mainly applicable for Designing Mechatronic product.

8. FUTURE WORK
 To reflect the changes in Product structure from its CAD model automatically by customizing the Pro-E and MATLAB environment.  To update the bill of materials (BOM) in the data base automatically if any changes were made the design.  To store the MATLAB results (graphs, tables, figures) in the appropriate folder where the product Meta-data is stored.  To retrieve the design easily from the database.

9. PROPOSED METHODOLOGY

10. Software Packages needed

 Windows 2000 Operating system.  Pro-Engineer Wild fire 5.0  MATLAB 2007  JDK 1.6  JRE 1.6